Akar PRakar Art Advisory presents a solo exhibition by Debasish Mukherjee – ‘The Museum within’. Drawn from the disciplines of cartography, archaeology and design, The Museum Within highlights the position and function of the museum, elucidated specifically in the selection and cataloguing of objects for display as well as its role in conservation.
Each work replicates the way an object or historical ruin, once found, is preserved as collective memory and as museum artifact, as art and as design. One of the exhibition’s most poignant pieces Benares, is based on varying perspectives of the artist’s own experience of the ancient city. Museum curator and conservator, Debasish Mukherjee brings forth these roles, as he reconstructs architectures and objects from his past in order to raise questions around preservation and neglect. Unlike an archaeologist who excavates physical space looking for clues that inform our understanding of civilizations, he employs the archaeologist’s quest as a means of resisting the alleged ruin that claim many historical sites today.
Akar PRakar Art Advisory presents a solo exhibition by Debasish Mukherjee – ‘The Museum within’. Drawn from the disciplines of cartography, archaeology and design, The Museum Within highlights the position and function of the museum, elucidated specifically in the selection and cataloguing of objects for display as well as its role in conservation.
Each work replicates the way an object or historical ruin, once found, is preserved as collective memory and as museum artifact, as art and as design. One of the exhibition’s most poignant pieces Benares, is based on varying perspectives of the artist’s own experience of the ancient city. Museum curator and conservator, Debasish Mukherjee brings forth these roles, as he reconstructs architectures and objects from his past in order to raise questions around preservation and neglect. Unlike an archaeologist who excavates physical space looking for clues that inform our understanding of civilizations, he employs the archaeologist’s quest as a means of resisting the alleged ruin that claim many historical sites today.